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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.

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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Blind Bottle Come Encounter Impulse Medicine Mountain Observation Soul
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Accustom Blessing Bored Chain Dog Sausage Self
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Achieve All Art Cinema Mankind People Save Sky Spontaneous
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Ignorant Innocent May Remain
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Different Forget Look Meaning Pain Remember Thing
The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Cigarette Dialogue Noth Parentless Proscenium Shar Time
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Blindness Chosen Come Dogma Fantacism Form Pursuit
This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Achieve Country Deprivation Desirable Develop False Impose Intensive Standard Today
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Around Help Look Marvelous People See Terrible Want World Writing
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Forget Opposite Other Pain Painting Photography Remind Way
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Artist Country Event Influence might Outgoing Political Themselves Time Tragedies
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Experience Give Giving Moment Narrative Normal Offer Planet Public Sense Space
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Always Constitute History Past Present Relation
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Art Country Italian Mountain Space Top Traditional
To be naked is to be oneself.
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Be Naked Oneself
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Believe City Country Love Man Men Older Twenties Woman
Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Become Commodity Everything Exchangeable
The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Feel May Minimize Monopoly Need Passion Sexual Spectator Such Women
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Back Herself Love Offer Price Product Publicity Stealing
All creation is in the art of seeing.
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All Creation Art See
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Apart Authentic Contribute Labor Poem Poetry Separate Together Violence
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Art Future Innocent Judge never Often Past Revenge Shown Suffer
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Age Believe City Every Nothing Sex Teenager
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Again never One Shall Single Stories Story Told

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